[Machine Translation] From his first collection of poems, "Two Billion Light Years of Solitude," to the present day, Shuntaro Tanikawa has been pioneering the future of poetry in every form: fresh lyricism, language experimentation, lyric writing, and wordplay. The author, who has followed Tanikawa's poetry for many years, traces the course of Tanikawa's poetics through a comprehensive survey of his more than 60 books of poetry. This is the fruit of a life's work, filled with the joy of reading.